Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration

Michaela Fišerová is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of J. E. Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic and researcher at Metropolitan University in Prague. She works in the fields of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, with specialisation in the problematics of media, arts, politics and animality. She is the author of Sharing the Visible: Rethinking Foucault (2013), Image and Power: Interviews with French Thinkers (2015), Deconstructing Signature (2016), Fragmentary Vision: Rancière, Derrida, Nancy (2019), and Event of Signature: Jacques Derrida and Repeating of the Unrepeatable (SUNY, 2022).Jakub Mácha is researcher at the Metropolitan University Prague and Professor at the Department of Aesthetics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has published on philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015). His co-edited volumes include Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (2016), Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (2018), Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference (2019), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein (2024), and Platonism (2024). His most recent book is The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (Routledge, 2023).

• Introduction: What is Ornament - Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha; 1. Truth in Ornament: Aesthetics of Repetition between Derrida and Kierkegaard - Michaela Fišerová; 2. Crafting an Ornament. On Craft Emancipation Myth - Tereza Sluková; 3. Ornamental Play in Deleuze’s Aesthetics - Corry Shores; 4. Decorum in Interspecies Cohabitation: Hume, Deleuze, and Becoming-Ornament - Michaela Fišerová; 5. Ornamental Representations: Exploring the Interplay between Aesthetics and Politics - Lenka Lee; 6. Foucault’s Baroque - Barry Stocker; 7. Languages of Ornament and Art: Repetition, Norm, and Deviation - Peter Michalovič; 8. Ornaments as Frozen Music - Vanda Božičević Metzger; 9. Framing Metaphysics: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Ornamentation of Philosophical Grounding - Jakub Mácha.